For the first time I was able to watch Animal House

IJAG... you need to see those three films.
Based on the last comment about every other 'coming of age' flick, am I correct in reading that as you've never seen any part of The Breakfast Club or 16 Candles?

 

I've never seen Caddyshack.

 

What are you? Amish?

 

Nope. Just don't find anything I've heard about those movies to be humorous.

And no, EStreet, I've seen those. i guess I should have said the earlier coming-of-age movies and the 'standards' for the most part of the past 40.

 

Shouldn't you consider actually, you know, seeing the movies before passing judgement on them?

 

"This is what happens when you find a stanger in the Alps."

 

"Do you see this, Larry? Do you see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps?"

 

A showing of Austin Powers on E! Saturday edited out the scene where Liz Hurley bites the sausage while Mike Myers is prancing about nakkid
And yet I'm watching some comedy specials on Comedy Central last night and they're dropping f-bombs and women (and men) are exposing themselves - imagine that.

 

If you don't watch Blues Brothers for the humor, watch it for the musical numbers:
- Aretha Franklin singing "You Better Think"
- Ray Charles singing "Shake a Tailfeather"
- Cab Calloway singing "Minnie the Moocher"
- a minute or so of John Lee Hooker singing "Boom, Boom, Boom"
- the Blues Brothers (Akroyd & Belushi) singing "Stand By Your Man", "Theme from Rawhide", "Sweet Home Chicago".
- James Brown singing "The Old Landmark"
- "Jailhouse Rock" - everyone in the movie

 

You-and everyone-need to read The Real Animal House by Chris Miller.

It came out earlier this year and Miller, a lampoon writer whose stories in the yearbook issue influence the movie, goes more in-depth about his college years at Dartmouth. It's a hysterical read. Words fail on this one.

 

NO SPOILERS!

 

Hence why I said "nothing I've heard about them." Never claimed they weren't. Just that they don't appeal to me.